Voting Rights of Indonesian Trans Women; KPU Explains Issues on Transgender Group in Elections
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26 September 2022 21:30 WIB
If someone doesn’t have an ID card but has a family card, can they register as a voter?
Law Number 7 of 2017 stated that voters must be 17 years old or above, or have been married and have an electronic ID card. If they want to vote and we have the data, before the voting day or before the final voters' list is issued, it can be feedback data for the Home Affairs Ministry.
ID number is written on the family card, can it be used to vote?
A physical ID card must still be shown. For example, those who are 17 years old but have not yet obtained the KTP and want to vote, they must record their data first (to register for an ID card).
Our data shows that there are 7,000 transgender women in 21 cities, but only 675 have an ID card. How are KPU’s efforts to speed up data collection?
That’s for Pak Zudan (director general of Citizenship and Civil Registration at the Home Affairs Ministry) to handle. But if we have the data, we definitely will give it to the Home Affairs Ministry. For example, when we checked the DP4 (the list of potential voters for the general election), we found data on voters who had died. It also becomes the feedback data that must be submitted to the Home Affairs Ministry, so they would be classified as deceased since not everyone administers their family member's death certificate.
In the previous election, there was a case when someone came to the polling station but wasn’t able to vote. The officer debated the name that was written differently on the voters' list and on the ID card. Can they still vote?
That means that they have never been recorded on the final voters' list (DPT). Here is how it works: we received the DP4 form that we checked and put them on the temporary voters' list (DPS). And then from DPS to DPSHP (the revised temporary voters’ list).
In DP4, we received data on NIK and the other 12 elements. If they are people with disabilities, there will be information about it. So, if the name on the e-KTP is not the same on the DPT, they are not registered at the polling station. We have the tools in our NIK. Please do check. If they want to vote by only using the KTP, it still must be checked if they are truly registered. If they are not registered, they will be registered as special voters and may cast their vote at 12:00-13:00. The requirement is they can only vote at the domicile stated on the KTP.
There is a case where someone does not have an ID card but they received an invitation to vote and cast their vote. What do you think about it?
So, the C6 letter or the invitation is only a reminder that you can only cast your vote at the polling site that has been determined. If it is found (that someone has no ID card but received an invitation), it is a criminal act. That could be made possible probably because the KPPS was local.
Please remember that there are supervisors and witnesses at the polling stations. If there is such a finding, that leads to a criminal act as it is considered to have used other people’s right to vote.
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